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Slice vs Splice vs Shift
Compares the speed for removing 2 items from the beginning of an array
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 131
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
array.shift()
35.2M/s
array.splice()
26.6M/s
array.slice()
4.7M/s
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Executions per second
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array.shift()
35,234,840 Ops/sec
array.splice()
26,565,232 Ops/sec
array.slice()
4,706,091 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
var array = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] var itemsToRemove = 2
Tests:
array.slice()
array = array.slice(2)
array.splice()
array.splice(0, itemsToRemove)
array.shift()
for (let i = 0 ; i < itemsToRemove ; i++) array.shift()